• Mantzy81@aussie.zone
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    The irony that the US wouldn’t allow Chinese-based social media algorithms to run in the US but they think they have any right to the social media policies put forward by another country. As always, Trump can go fuck himself in his cunt box.

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      Depends on how you look at it.

      If it’s really all about enforcing US hegemony, then the two things line up perfectly.

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        Hegemony isn’t forced, it’s earned. It comes about via soft power, which is something the current administration doesn’t understand at all. Hence why the US has lost standing, respect and ultimately potential earnings over the last 10 years. They act like colonisers, with a power structure based on fear but that only works if you’re actually.good at war and have the tactical agility to change how you infiltrate an enemy, real or imagined to perpetuate the “fear culture” that the US mindset thrives on. Unfortunately for the US, they keep showing that it’s not and hence hegemony has been destroyed. The US empire has been quite pathetic in terms of longevity.

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      As always, Trump can go fuck himself in his cunt box.

      I can’t tell if this is redundant or not (mostly intended as a joke, but I am curious now). Is “cunt” here an adjective? Does “box” mean vagina for Australians?

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        Can confirm that ‘box’ is indeed an Australian term for vagina

        Yeah we sometimes double up in redundancy with these terms. Cunt box is acceptable Strine

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    Rare intervention? From the country that messes with everything and everyone all the time? About as rare as sand in Egypt.

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      I had a similar thought. So many coups, drug running, propping up rebels, both domestically and international. Nobody does intervention like US. They ask us how is our intervention so good. It’s true. The US doesn’t say it, but others admit it is good.

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    “The US government would likely consider such a measure as facilitating censorship,” the submission said."

    The irony of this being said in the same week Trump has banned several news organisations from White House press briefings.

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    The US government would likely consider such a measure as facilitating censorship," the submission said.

    This is such an asinine stretch and holy moly I think this is one of the biggest admissions of big tech’s true intentions to date, not that we didn’t already know this.

    The United States is so blatantly corrupt. Controlled by big tech. An algorithm off switch kills social media’s black box of manipulation and they know it.

    I pray that Australia holds strong and enacts this. I cannot wait to see the data on mental health effects in those with algorithmic and non-algorithmic feeds.

    I cannot wait for this. Genuinely going to add it in my calendar haha

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      It’s Australia. They have “rare” shark attacks too so maybe the word has some leeway.

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            Y’all both need to recalibrate your threat assessment values. Mosquitos have killed more humans than hyenas or humans have, at least for now. Humans are certainly catching up

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              Well, actually, they’re just the vector. The real killer is the microbe.

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                Tell me exactly how you’re gonna protect yourself from said microbe, without protecting yourself from mosquitoes?

                I assume you aren’t talking about hyenas since they just crushed our (hominids) spines and skulls with their teeth for a few hundred thousand years.

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                  Some have vaccines. Others have medicines you can take prophylactically.

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    Yeah… That’s because we have far-right wing dipshits scaremongering all over facebook at the moment, and, they rely on the rage bait to generate attention.

    Nobody would willingly subscribe to One nation bot farms, anti-vax wankers, or all the bullshit about how great petrol and coal is.

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    The PM’s name being “Albanese” really confused me for a moment there, when the article talked about Albanese government

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    It put a number of questions to the Australian government, including how Australia would define “harm” and “risks”

    USA proving they don’t even understand the law.